Tom Clancy's The Division

Rob2D wrote: »

As Tac, I find Times Square the hardest.

Any recommendations on a handier one for solo Tac?

First part takes the longest. Have to draw the shotgunners out and then I was just laying turrets and legging down the stairs in the next bit.

As Tac, I find Times Square the hardest.

yeah it's my safe place when things start going to shi*, legendaries can be tough as generally you're specced for damage to elites, there's purples and the enemy hits quite hard

gimli2112 wrote: »

There's a scaffold to the left of the van where the 4 or 5 enemy jump out of and you have to fight them and a shield moron. It's where one of the snipers shoots at you when you come up from the underground. That's the go to spot each time you trigger a wave, fairly sure they won't climb up the stairs.
Legendary spawns are horrid but I think there used to be none.

So as soon as I trigger the wave head up the scaffolding and camp there?

Wouldn't have minded the spawn so much if I wasn't under time pressure. I've only played it on Legendary once before with Mossym and only other time I played the level was during campaign so no harm doing it again when I have time to learn the spawns a bit more.

Presume that's near the end of level, can't really remember from last time.

skerry wrote: »

Had a quick game there before the little one arrived home and tried to solo Times Square on Legendary.

Got to near the end where you had to defend area after putting in the fuse and died there cos I'm not too familiar with the spawn points. Put me wayyy back then after I died, didn't realise the checkpoints are so crap on Legendary and didn't have time to go through enemy waves again.

Any tips on where best to position my tactician after I plug in the fuse to put distance between myself and enemies?

There's a scaffold to the left of the van where the 4 or 5 enemy jump out of and you have to fight them and a shield moron. It's where one of the snipers shoots at you when you come up from the underground. That's the go to spot each time you trigger a wave, fairly sure they won't climb up the stairs.
Legendary spawns are horrid but I think there used to be none.

Had a quick game there before the little one arrived home and tried to solo Times Square on Legendary.

Got to near the end where you had to defend area after putting in the fuse and died there cos I'm not too familiar with the spawn points. Put me wayyy back then after I died, didn't realise the checkpoints are so crap on Legendary and didn't have time to go through enemy waves again.

Any tips on where best to position my tactician after I plug in the fuse to put distance between myself and enemies?

_CreeD_

The big question though is does he guarantee to save Ramos?

skerry wrote: »

10 waves of Resistance for the same price.

A whole 10 waves?! Wow.

I wonder does he keep $10 and give $5 to the other lads.

gimli2112 wrote: »

The world's a big place I'm sure someone could pay it but I'd be surprised. It's quite literally throwing money away for no reason. I'd help for free but at this stage I am prone to rage quitting, which I couldn't do if I was doing this professionally.

Promise I wasn't looking for quick ways to get my grubby hands on exotics

Googled to see what weekly legendary is and this popped up. He and his crack team will also guide you through 10 waves of Resistance for the same price. God help us all

The world's a big place I'm sure someone could pay it but I'd be surprised. It's quite literally throwing money away for no reason. I'd help for free but at this stage I am prone to rage quitting, which I couldn't do if I was doing this professionally.

If ye're badly stuck for Exotic Caches while waiting for the 1.8.1 update ye could always hit up this lad on Ebay. For a mere $20 he will walk you through a Legendary mission for a guaranteed Exotic

This is for Tom Clancy's The Division on PC.
Players must be level 30 and have completed the General Assembly mission.
You may pay $10 more to have priority over other runs.
I can provide any Division related service you can imagine, just contact me.

This will consist of my team guiding you through one of the three legendary missions of your choice.
There is Warrengate Powerplant, Napalm Production Site, and Time's Square.
Completing each of these missions every week results in a guaranteed Exotic Cache from each one once a week.

The only thing worse than getting your 5th Showstopper is having to pay $20 for the privilege.

mossym wrote: »

about the only variety left in the game is messing around with different builds to find new ways to kill things.

Yeah but classified gear sort of ruined that too. Plus as you say once you've tried all the sets it all gets a little boring. PvP used to be the spice of life for me but classified has ruined that too. I might go for the skirmish commendations maybe. Rogue hunting will always be somewhat entertaining too.

Right now I love surprising people with my Tac build. Joined an underground over tea break and just nuked stuff all round. Got to the end and bombed the final mob in one shot while my seekers finished the boss. The other 3 guys just stood around and looked at me.

Played legendary napalm recently with a German and some Dublin lad who couldn't believe what they were seeing either. They asked me to explain the build but I don't think they could grasp it.

mossym

once you get a build optimised though and run it a few times it can get old pretty fast, especially when you;ve been playing since the start. 6 piece classified strikers/nomad were fine for farming the GE but about the only variety left in the game is messing around with different builds to find new ways to kill things.

I lined up all my firecrest items last week to do a build but then I was like nah I just can't be arsed right now. Plus I'll probably just use it once and then never again :pac:

yeah my stash is now at around 145/150, all four characters have 70+ items. I've a ton of junk I'll never use but after they changed the ninja bike back pack into something useful I'm afraid to throw anything away. Have M44s I've never used but can't bring myself to throw them out as they've got decent perks.

mossym

so, GE's are over. and this is how i finished up. the 1 just means i have at least 1, for most of them it's several, i've some serious cleaning up to do. deadeye and firecrest are the biggest gaps, the others i don't care about, would like to have tried a high firearms DE and a high elec firearms with the MDR. ah well, can't win them all
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gimli2112 wrote: »

Daily caches give 25 div tech and weekly and UG give 100.
I had 700+ div tech this weekend and then read your comments on the tactician and plowed it all into that. Still can't get it to work. I have a terrible holster which had FA and Stam around 1300 and no spare.
Just read the 6th piece of classified Firecrest now gives you immunity from your own fire. Dammit I need to build that now.

Have the 6 piece in the stash so might throw a build together at the weekend. Have Urban MDR too I think. Looked up a few YouTube videos there, looks like a fun build.

Not sure how it would work in a team though, presume other team members are affected by your fire so could end up wrecking heads in close quarters levels.

mossym

gimli2112 wrote: »

@9k stam you get a boost to the bleed, a painful predator doesn't do the insane damage with FA but with stamina and with a lot of crit. Not saying a FA predator can't be good but you're building against it's strength.

Tazzimus wrote: »

Think its an additional 120% to the bleed once you've 9k stamina

will state before i say this that i now cannot find (or really remember if i am looking in the right place) the thread where i read this. i'm pretty sure it was reddit.

but from what i recall the guy(girl) did some testing with 9k versus without, and came to the conclusion the extra bleed was just a bonus for those that wanted to run really tanky, and was still less than what you would have if you lodged into firearms versus stamina, and not by a small amount.

now it may have been on overall damage including bleed versus just the bleed itself. so for PVP the 9k is likely better as the bleed is more important, but for pve the overall damage is way more important.

i'm probably wrong, in any case i've never liked being super tanky and much prefer shorter TTK so probably better to ignore this

Tazzimus

skerry wrote: »

Cool, I've been dropping down to WT2 trying to level my brother up a bit so will see if any good rolls drop then. Might try craft a few more AR's from my 256 AK blueprint and get the roll I want, reckon I'll definitely see the benefit. Tactician is great build for leveling someone up with too.

Striker was fun but steamrolling over NPCs gets boring after a while. More fun in building the Tactician and tweaking him I think. And even though you don;t have to engage much, there's still some hairy moments when a shotgunner is getting in your face and your seekers aren't back yet so you gotta get your squishy self out of the way.

Tier 3 should be the sweet spot for a decent at that can get all the talents unlocked. I ran amhersts a few times and got a decent one.

Just don't forget to go back to tier 5, like I did

Sitting there trying to matchmake into Lex wondering why I couldn't get a game

dudeeile

May as well post up the main points from the 22/02 SotG:

New Classified Caches
- During Global Events – Targeted classified gear set caches will be available. Each event will have 4 caches available for purchase containing the event’s corresponding sets.
- Off season – A classified cache will be available for purchase, containing a guaranteed classified drop. It will be priced at 2500 phoenix credits and will not be limited to Global Events.
Classified drop rates will be increased across the board to 6% (from 3%).
Legendary missions will have a 20% chance of classified drops.
Season Pass supply drops will have a 10% chance to drop a classified gear piece and will in addition contain 100 Division tech.
Weekly assignments rewards will include 100 Division tech.
Daily assignments rewards will include 25 Division tech.
All vendor exotics will be removed from the loot pool.
All non-vendor exotics will be added to the open world boss loot pool.
Resistance bosses will reward 100 Global Event tokens each.

Other few items of note coming in update 1.8.1

And the latest 29/02 SotG.

Daily caches give 25 div tech and weekly and UG give 100.
I had 700+ div tech this weekend and then read your comments on the tactician and plowed it all into that. Still can't get it to work. I have a terrible holster which had FA and Stam around 1300 and no spare.
Just read the 6th piece of classified Firecrest now gives you immunity from your own fire. Dammit I need to build that now.

So what caches are we supposed to be saving?

Exotic and weekly?

Rob2D wrote: »

Yeah it's an age old trick. Weapon talents don't apply to the gun, they apply to YOU.

Oh yeah, you can't buy named blueprints anymore.

Only thing you can do is drop down a couple world tiers and see if you can get a decent AR drop.

Cool, I've been dropping down to WT2 trying to level my brother up a bit so will see if any good rolls drop then. Might try craft a few more AR's from my 256 AK blueprint and get the roll I want, reckon I'll definitely see the benefit. Tactician is great build for leveling someone up with too.

Striker was fun but steamrolling over NPCs gets boring after a while. More fun in building the Tactician and tweaking him I think. And even though you don;t have to engage much, there's still some hairy moments when a shotgunner is getting in your face and your seekers aren't back yet so you gotta get your squishy self out of the way.

Yeah it's an age old trick. Weapon talents don't apply to the gun, they apply to YOU.

Oh yeah, you can't buy named blueprints anymore.

Only thing you can do is drop down a couple world tiers and see if you can get a decent AR drop.

Rob2D wrote: »

Mandatory even. Best thing is to craft your old Liberator blueprint until you get the god roll. I have ferocious, destructive and predatory. Then an MDR with competent and talented for when I actually need to do a bit of damage. And don't forget a coolheaded pistol.

No tactician worth his salt should ever have a gear score of greater than 270 IMO.

I think predatory is perfectly fine for healing. It's like sitting in a healing station. I wouldn't give up inventive for relentless but that's just me.

Get to 50% skill haste, roll enemy armour damage and damage to elites everywhere, dump the rest into skill power with seeker mods and you're away.

and don't forget those 2 explosion talents you can pick as well.

My lad is sitting around 270 now.

I had to do a bit of googling last night to find out why a 204 AR was needed. I was thinking that intentionally getting something with a lower gear score goes against everything I've learned

Build I went with is also using 256 AR with Talented , Competent and Deadly. Must have crafter 50 256 AR's last night and that was the best I could come up with. Was hoping for Destructive or Predatory in third slot.

Get the extra skill power if I switch to 256 AR with Talented after laying seekers and its working well so far.

Camp Clinton vendor has a Liberator with Competent, Destructive and Focused so might see if I can pick that up.

Where do you get Exotic Blueprints? I haven't came across any yet.

Tazzimus wrote: »

204 ish gs AR is handy so all the talents are unlocked, which transfer into the seekers.

I'm using the 4 piece with inventive chest and relentless backpack and find it grand. Can be squishy is you run in head first but using cover is generally advisable anyway

Using Barrets chestpiece now myself. Is there an advantage using Inventive, picked up one earlier but didn't get time to check what it did to the build.

Not much running in head first now with this guy which took some getting used to after using Striker for a few weeks. Seeker mines FTW though.

Tazzimus wrote: »

204 ish gs AR is handy so all the talents are unlocked, which transfer into the seekers.

Mandatory even. Best thing is to craft your old Liberator blueprint until you get the god roll. I have ferocious, destructive and predatory. Then an MDR with competent and talented for when I actually need to do a bit of damage. And don't forget a coolheaded pistol.

No tactician worth his salt should ever have a gear score of greater than 270 IMO.

I think predatory is perfectly fine for healing. It's like sitting in a healing station. I wouldn't give up inventive for relentless but that's just me.

Get to 50% skill haste, roll enemy armour damage and damage to elites everywhere, dump the rest into skill power with seeker mods and you're away.

and don't forget those 2 explosion talents you can pick as well.

Tazzimus

204 ish gs AR is handy so all the talents are unlocked, which transfer into the seekers.

I'm using the 4 piece with inventive chest and relentless backpack and find it grand. Can be squishy is you run in head first but using cover is generally advisable anyway

Rob2D wrote: »

You sure can. In fact it's better to go that way if you are looking to use it as a quality build. Tone down the electronics a bit and the barrets helps with the loss. In fact you can make an absolutely incredible all-round build this way. Second maybe only to an electronic nomad for solo play where you actually want to be doing stuff.

But of course for full on god mode Tactician it's 5 piece + inventive. But that alone isn't enough. You still need the perfect rolls, mods and guns to make it work.

Cheers, ran Lex on Challenging solo there and its dead easy unless you go rushing things. Only realised after that I still had some mod slots free so I filled them and have Skill Haste up to 46% now and running at just over 9k electronics.

Running 2 AR's with Destructive and Ferocious on one which I believe transfer to extra Seeker mine damage on elites and I have Talented and Destructive on the other (Deadly is 3rd talent but don't have firearms for it so need a roll with Predatory I think).

Bit of switching between weapons to get most out of talents but really enjoying the build so far.

Any super good mods I should be looking out for or recommended talents for weapons that will give good synergy with the build? Mainly run cluster seekers and bullet turret and switch to BFB when groups of enemies are close together